Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain; The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Folk Music and Legacy in Empire- a 2-Part Podcast Series
This project will create a 2-part podcast series detailing Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain and its legacy cross-culturally within Empire. This grossly under-researched and ignored era in Britain’s imperial past is important in understanding the potential reasons for the huge absence of black and ‘ethnic minority’ identifying practitioners in the field of folk music in Britain. … Continued